New Trends of Nanofluidics and Nanofluids

Dear Colleagues,

Nanofluidics is the study and manipulation of fluids confined to nanometer-sized structures. Nanofluids are a class of new engineered fluids that contain nanometer-sized (metallic or non-metallic) particles. Both nanofluids and nanofluidics have been emerging research topics that have attracted plenty of researchers recently. Nanofluidic devices have potential applications in DNA sequencing, epigenetic analysis, gene therapy, drug delivery, and toxicity analysis. Nanofluids have been found to possess enhanced thermo-physical properties, such as thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity, and viscosity, compared with those of conventional fluids. Thus, nanofluids have been used in industrial cooling applications, nuclear reactors, geothermal power energy sources, automotive fluids and coolants, biomedical applications, and electronic equipment cooling. Because of their miniaturization and high performance, the systems generate very high power (high temperature) densities. As conventional cooling techniques are not providing fast cooling needs for these systems, nanofluids and nanofluidics can play a major role in overcoming such challenges.

As a result of this significance and the potential applications of nanofluidics and nanofluids, this Special Issue is focused on “New Trends of Nanofluidics and Nanofluids” in the Nanomaterials journal to cover recent developments and applications.

Accepted papers are published in the joint Special Issue in Nanomaterials or Nanomanufacturing (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomanufacturing/special_issues/Nanofluidic_Nanofluid).

Dr. Sivasankaran Sivanandam
Guest Editor

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